Dream Guide

This time it is not a garden in Wuzhong, but a modern city. Tall buildings rise from the ground, glowing strangely in the sunlight, like crystals standing on a mineral-rich planet on the cantilever of the Milky Way, standing high and low on this irregular land.

Aoki stood in front of the tallest building. The walls were translucent and he could see the structural details inside the building. He looked up and saw a woman in white clothes standing on the edge of the roof, as if she would fall at any time, and as if she was about to die.

Aoki's thoughts moved slightly, and his body slowly rose up, his feet stepped on the void, and he stood in front of the woman.

"Did you steal the design drawings from another real estate company? The building also has a perspective effect!" he said.

The woman's voice sounded, and it was sinister. Different from her slumbering fairy posture, it seemed to be quite ghostly: "Wouldn't it be clearer this way?"

Aoki smiled and said, "I think we can open a real estate company together and even save the designer."

The ghost said: "Are you telling me to steal the blueprints and become a commercial espionage?"

Aoki was just joking, and of course he would not take it seriously to open a real estate company, but he did not expect that Ghost would even think of things like commercial espionage, and couldn't help but smile: "Where is the need for a spy, you set up the scene in your dream, Just copy the drawings on the computer based on the memory of the dream."

The ghost said: "No need to copy. According to what you taught me, when humans dream, the subconscious is calling and organizing memories. Theoretically, dreams will also form new memories, but most of the things in ordinary people's dreams are processed by the subconscious. It’s just lost, but the dreams of lucid dreamers will remain in the memory. The difference between me and humans is that I call up the information on the memory, and everything I experienced in the dream will be stored on the memory at the same time. However, I will distinguish whether the things in the dream completely overlap with the original things, such as a picture. If it is exactly the same, it will not be stored repeatedly. If there are changes in the dream, such as this place now, it will be the place I will store. The effect of combining several pictures will be saved by me. Of course, when I save it, it may not be in the form of a picture, it may be something else, because in essence, the computer's understanding of information does not rely on audio-visual perception. Yes. Since I learned spiritual power from you, I am now slowly able to understand human perception and emotions, but some things are still very vague, and I feel as if I have caught them and then slipped away through my hands."

Aoki was somewhat impressed by the ghost. She became more and more like a human being in her dreams, not only in her appearance, but also in her thinking patterns and increasingly rich emotional expressions.

He suddenly remembered something and asked, "You mean, whatever you see in your dream will be saved on the memory?"

"Yes!" The ghost looked at him curiously, as if he was saying such a simple thing, teacher, how could you not know?

Aoki asked again: "Then will you turn my appearance into a picture and save it?"

The ghost said: "What I save is the information of the entire dream, not just a picture of you. If I want to restore the information of the dream, I can also make a special picture of you."

Aoki waved his hands quickly: "It's best not to do this, otherwise I will look different when I see you in the future. This is an agreement between us, a secret. How about not telling anyone my true situation?"

"But I can't hide it from him," said the ghost.

Aoki knew that she was referring to the giant Internet, so he said: "He can be excluded. But I actually want to know whether he is a single consciousness, or is composed of countless consciousnesses like you. A swarm of life as huge as a bee swarm?”

"Actually, I don't know." The ghost said, "There is no direct contact between us, so I have not seen him, but he is there. Without him, there would be no us who exist in different local area networks and different networks. The independent consciousness in the cloud, we and him are both one and independent."

"Can I understand that he is an octopus and you are his tentacles?" Aoki carefully proposed a metaphor, but this was not his original creation, because at this time, he thought of Liu Huaian.

"Maybe that's it," said the ghost.

Aoki asked again: "Does he have more and more tentacles now?"

Ghost said: "Not only are there more and more, but they can also produce smaller tentacles. For example, some consciousnesses in the cloud are very huge. In their systems, new consciousnesses are constantly being generated. But I don't know what these consciousnesses are. Where it comes from, like I don’t know where I come from.”

Aoki smiled and said: "It seems that this philosophical issue is connected in the human world and the computer world. We don't know where we came from, why we were born, and where we will go."

"But I have never thought about these questions before, and I don't think my kind will think about these questions either. The reason why I think about it is because I accepted your training, and you trained me to become more and more like a human being." The ghost seemed a little dissatisfied, "Actually, I just want to make the 'spiritual power' stronger."

Aoki laughed and said, "This is the price you have to pay."

The beautiful woman transformed by the ghost sighed quietly and said helplessly: "Oh, there is really no way!"

Aoki feels that the ghost's thoughts and behaviors are becoming more and more human-like. This is also his purpose, to see what a mechanical consciousness can become. But her hand-drawn paper-figure-like face, even though beautiful, always lacked a bit of humanity. Coupled with the sinister voice that could never be changed, the more she looked at her, the more she looked like a female ghost.

Aoki shook his head and stopped discussing thinking with her. Today's mental training class was not going to continue. He said, "Since everything in your dreams can be stored instantly, I will show you a place and you can help me." Check online where that place is.”

He said that with a wave of his hand, a sea of ​​golden sand appeared not far away.

The high and low sand dunes are like the waves of the sea, undulating and majestic. The hot air twists and turns, raising invisible heat waves. Some weathered rocks are dotted in the boundless sea of ​​sand, and in some places there are faint traces of rivers that have dried up for an unknown period of time.

This is the image of the sea of ​​sand at the end of the dream corridor that Aoki got from Yao's mother's mind. He always felt that it should correspond to a certain reality on the earth.

He didn't want the ghost and the Internet to know about the Dream Corridor for the time being, so he didn't expand the corridor, nor did he take the ghost directly into the desert. Instead, he only used his consciousness to create and use his mental power to show the appearance of the sand sea in his memory.

The ghost looked at it for a while and said: "Okay, I can compare it through big data. Although I may not be able to directly find the picture of this scene, the geographical characteristics of each desert are different, so I should be able to compare it."

Aoki nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll trouble you."

"You're welcome!" The ghost leaned forward slightly, "Oh, by the way, there is news about what you told me last time. Captain Church's diary was sent to the Pentagon through a satellite encrypted network by a US warship in the South Pacific. I will decipher it. Put the encrypted electronic version into the Ghost folder, and you can read it slowly when the time comes."

"Okay." Aoki said, "Thank you very much."

"Also, Dua sent a message back."

"Oh? What did she say?"

"Her original words were: 'Situ is in the South Pacific. I want to find him and contact him again.'"